mjolah

Michael Olah

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Fri Jul 17

"Cell phone and data service "only where there is wifi" is one that not only doesn't make the grade, it is laughably outside the realm of practical consideration - at least for me - and based on the amount of money being spent by [more]

"Sure, I have no problems adjusting to change. That's why I jumped on the iPhone and away from the PDA+dumb phone combination in the first place. IMO, the time for me to jump on yet another platform hasn't come yet."

"I pay $250 a month for cable, but only watch a handful of channels, and then only for a couple hours a night. it isn't about the 80-90%, it's about whether the 10% has enough value in it to make it worthwhile."

Interesting question raised. Perhaps the question should be rephrased as "since you are connected to WIFI 80% of the time, is it worth it to pay $100 a month for SMARTPHONE - or would a "dumb phone" (or even a "TRAC" phone) [more]

Mon Jul 6

I suggest you research the genesis of the debt that Greece has - as it began with commercial banks primarily in France and Germany lending money to CORPORATIONS in Greece that defaulted in the recession. The debt was "transferred" to the [more]

Wed Jul 1

"Well, no. He has been so serially wrong across the years that he deserves to be viewed with EXTREME skepticism. When someone is wrong time after time after time, it is incumbent on THEM to prove their case, not on me to treat it with [more]

Mon Jun 29

"This is wildly incorrect! If Apple has 6B shares outstanding worth $500B, and they spend $100B to buy back 500M shares, and then the remaining 5.5B shares are still worth $500B (or $700B as the case may be), it will still cost $500B (or $700B [more]

"And what makes you think growth is any more theoretically sustainable than stock buybacks? A company which keeps growing faster than the economy will eventually accounts for 100% of the Gross World Product. At that point, the company is the [more]

Fri Jun 26

"I was just worried that you wanted Apple to spend that lovely cash on something to grow the company, like another company other than the generally small ones (except for Beats, not so great) that Apple's been buying for years. Over paying for, [more]

"Stock buybacks change the ratio of assets owned by the company away from cash and therefore towards the other assets. If a company has $80 billion of assets and $80 billion of cash, but only needs to have $20 billion of cash as 'working [more]